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In article <200108221657.f7MGv6H61141@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>,
Garrett Wollman  <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> <<On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:27:01 +0700, Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> said:
> 
> > I would like to commit ARP support for link level addresses with
> > arbitrary length. Patches against HEAD attached. Most of this stuff
> > was taken from NetBSD.
> 
> Why?  Is there any reason to believe that FreeBSD will (or even should)
> ever support ARCNET?

Yes, Max and others in Russia (at least) feel that it will be
worthwhile to support it.  The core team approved his committership
fully aware that this was one of the projects he planned to pursue.

John
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